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buy from those stalls, buy at those stalls

They set up the stalls, and then children buy from those stalls.
They set up the stalls, and then children buy at those stalls.

Tell me about the correct and natural preposition usage in this situation. Tell me which one of the above is more natural and grammatical or tell me if there is any other way of communicating the same message.

Re: buy from those stalls, buy at those stalls

Originally Posted by Rover_KE

'They set up the stalls, and then children buy from them.'

So "from" is the answer. Thanks for rephrasing it anyway to avoid repetition and I would certainly have used the same rephrased version if I spoke about it during a conversation with someone. But since it was written in that way in Urdu so I had to translate it with repetition, because there was repetition in the source language.

Re: buy from those stalls, buy at those stalls

Originally Posted by Aamir Tariq

So "from" is the answer. Thanks for rephrasing it anyway to avoid repetition and I would certainly have used the same rephrased version if I spoke about it during a conversation with someone. But since it was written in that way in Urdu so I had to translate it with repetition, because there was repetition in the source language.

A good translation reads naturally in the target language. It doesn't mimic the word usage of the source language. For example, in French you can emphasize an adjective by repeating it: elle est jolie-jolie means "she's very pretty." It would not be natural to write she's pretty-pretty in an English translation from French; the reader would think it was a typo, or they might think you meant she's pretty pretty ("she's somewhat but not outstandingly pretty").